On Jan 27, 2:54 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Arun <arungirid...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Jan 27, 3:14 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Arun <arungirid...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > When I try to run Sage 3.2.3 on Pentium M 750 (Dothan, MMX, SSE, SSE2) > >> > with VMWare on Windows XP, I get the following error: > > >> > WARNING! This Sage install was built on a machine that supports > >> > instructions that are not available on this computer. Sage will > >> > likely fail with ILLEGAL INSTRUCTION errors! The following > >> > processor > >> > flags were on the build machine but are not on this computer: > > >> > pni > > >> > I found this through Sagetrac:http://sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/4642 > >> > which says that pni (Prescott new instructions) cannot be ignored. > >> > Please let me know what I can do to disable Sage's reliance on pni, or > >> > if I need to compile Sage from source under VMWare. > > >> Right now the best thing you can do is to compile Sage from source under > >> VMware. > >> It should work since that's exactly how I build sage for the vmware > >> machine. If this proves impossible for you for some reason, let me > >> know. It should be easy though. > > >> We *are* working on making it so it is possible to build sage in such > >> a way that it > >> doesn't require pni, etc., but that will be some months in the future. > > >> -- William > > > William, > > > Thanks! It will probably be a little difficult for me due to disk > > space constraints (enough for Sage under VMWare Player, but > > insufficient for Ubuntu + VMWare Server + Sage), but I'll see what I > > can do to solve the problem. > > All you have to do is the following: > > 1. login to the virtual machine that you already have (login: login, > password: sage) > 2. sudo su > 3. cd /usr/local/ > 4. rm -rf sage # get rid of the sage install I put there > 5. wgethttp://sagemath.org/src/sage-3.2.3.tar > 6. tar xf sage-3.2.3.tar > 7. mv sage-3.2.3 sage > 8. cd sage > 9. make # 2-3 hours, at least. > > Then you're done. No need to install another Ubuntu + vmware server + > sage. Just use vmware player and what you've alread got. > > -- William
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